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by mkramlich 12y ago
for the public record, HBO came back the next day AFAIK, HBO (here, for me, my provider) had a total visual/sound outage on that day, only, the day that Citizenfour was to debut on air. HBO worked fine every day before. and every day s
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by mkramlich 12y ago
semi-related: Betty From Betelgeuse is the name of one of the main characters in my book series The Dread Space Pirate Richard. I chose Betelgeuse partly as a nod to HHGG and partly for the way it read and sounded when pronounced aloud. I t
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I was not able to correlate that hint with either a correct or incorrect guess. but regardless, please only make such attempts in private via email. ;-) update: 10:30pm and still the only local cable/public cbannel out is HBO. I'm
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by mkramlich 12y ago
haha. fair point. EDIT: if you think you have my address please email it to me (its in my profile). my opsec is far from perfect, haha, but I doubt its bad enough for you to have found it (that quickly anyway)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
its one of the two local dominant ones but I'm not sure which. I'll try to find out tomorrow. I'd say the city but this topic is already terrifying enough considering the nature of the "adversary", haha, oh man. if
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by mkramlich 12y ago
HBO here in Colorado was scheduled to show Citizenfour at 7pm local time. At approx 6pm I turned it on to get it ready. Black and silent. Continued black and silent up thru 9pm local when it was supposed to have ended. All other cable TV ch
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by mkramlich 12y ago
indeed. for the vast majority of people and cases some mix of Google/Wikipedia/Facebook/Craigslist/Amazon/Ebay/Tumblr/WordPress/Reddit/Yahoo/3tc is going to scratch their itch just fine. (to
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I just googled "Sam Altman" and among the top few links was the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman I then read that and it answered your question plus extra. i recommend the same techn
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I've made more than that and spread over a longer period of time, and probably at a higher average frequency as well. It definitely helps if its a passion and hobby, not just for money. Though a few of my own were commercial/publi
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by mkramlich 12y ago
this goes double (or half?) for test pilots
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by mkramlich 12y ago
simplified cheatsheet: rice, beans, nuts, fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk (for calcium and vitamin D) prepare in variety of ways. hot or cold. add spices for taste. sometimes meat for protein and iron. walnuts for omega 3 fatty acids which b
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by mkramlich 12y ago
or just go make that thing paying customers are the best, most direct validation. and if you keep the cash flow right you may never need investment. most good advice has already been distilled in free web pages and cheap books. build, sell,
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by mkramlich 12y ago
nice! I wrote my first book last year and loved the process and results (The Dread Space Pirate Richard on Amazon). now I have two more books underway in my free time. one is a sequel to that, so fiction. but the other is technical on the t
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by mkramlich 12y ago
> How many entities do you know with almost 700bn in the bank ? quickly tabs over to lookup Apple's balance sheet nope. but give it another few years. ;-)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
note my choice of words "wherever you can get away with it" :-) because I do take those situations into account. if it would cause a problem with others I don't do it. in my own notes or when dealing with others whose brains
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I hear you. but do what I and some others are doing. wherever you can get away with it put the $ after, as in "10$". let's be the change we wish to see in the world. I also try to express dates in sort-friendly format whereve
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I played indie games in 1981. Making indie games by 1982. Selling my own indie games by late 90's. so yes this another case of the "kids are so cute, thinking Katy Perry invented rock-and-roll" pattern.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I'm the creator of a Rogue-like game (Dead By Zombie) and love NetHack, consider it one of the masterpieces of game design I've tried to study and learn from. Lessons baked into it both in terms of game design and software. Has a
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by mkramlich 12y ago
The beauty/terror of NetHack is that even if you play with the wiki/spoilers at hand it's still a difficult game to master and win, even survive. YASD and the RNG kill most people, and often.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
the code exists on one of my disks somewhere. If you email me your email address I could notify you when I find it and get it usable for you. my email in my profile.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
A long time ago (though admittedly in this galaxy) I made a computer game with moral choices a key element in the gameplay. I named it Legacy. It was a Java GUI app. Though a small game in terms of feature set and code size I always remembe
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I once wrote software for a Gilbarco gas station pump, basically a "next gen" model of the kind used by ordinary folks all across the country daily. I too was surprised then by how much Internet related tech we were expected to us
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by mkramlich 12y ago
the FBI's mission is to enforce federal law what he proposed is more like defense. "cyber" defense. so perhaps better as a different agency or under DOD
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I've been designing games, mostly as a hobby but a little bit professionally, for about 30 years. And I love devising text/command interfaces for games. textual representations of the game state. Its a useful design constraint and
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by mkramlich 12y ago
"Yes, we would. And it would be easy to shutdown if it ever became a threat. So don't worry about it." ... said the strangely synthetic voice, associated with a pseudonym that had no profile activity ever before that day.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I had a similar reaction. Maybe because I've been reading for 35+ years and read stuff which is prob much better than The Martian. I see its attractions and his skill, no doubt, but felt lately there's a bit of a hype train going
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by mkramlich 12y ago
thanks!
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by mkramlich 12y ago
This is on my list to read after being recommended to me directly twice. As a fellow writer of fiction (The Dread Space Pirate Richard, a sci-fi comedy adventure faerie tale for adults) I was also encouraged to learn that this was another c
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by mkramlich 12y ago
exception: the obituary for the man who created a time travel device.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I agree with the article's arguments. I've been programming since age 10. Doing creative writing almost as long. As an adult ended up doing software engineering as my career. But wrote and published a fiction book two years ago (T

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